The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-11
THE TRUE BASIS OF JUDGMENT.

Me-, Orleans Times Democrat
While Mr. ZaChaTie was waxing fat at rural
barbecues and Messrs. White and McCsleb
were soaring into the upaleBcent enpyFean
Newton c. Blanchard burnt the midnight
oil and concentrated his powerful intellect
in Rnti-th1rd-teTm researches, Others might
wallow in buCqlC festivities and take on
adIpOBe galore, but he wo1ld BCorn delights
and live laborious days the while he fashioned
his contempt for what he calls thlIaateTm
ambition into glowing words and shapes ~
Overwhelming argument. 81,
There is something absolutely poetic IN
Mr. Blanchard RntEgOniZiug third terms.
He himself is just now entering upon his
fifth, and Is preparing to Appropriate ElNll
and still q seventh; vet he has come forward
with YoluIninOu8 quotations from niore or
less authoritative sources to show that he
who hafbors aspirations beyond O. second
term Is a traitor 10 our common Liberties.
One would think the reform combination
needed no further comedy strength after &C.
curing Hon, John Fitzpatrick as an advo-
cate of rotation in Office, but blanchard al
most browns the concern in rIchn9ss.
1t seems to uH, however that the REFORM
ere in addressing "a intelhEentR eOmmUni-
ty az this, world better serve their cause by
abandoning these silly and shallow eXpedi-
ents, Men who are engaged IN The serious
affairs of life, who have substantial interests
at stake, have neither the leisure nor the III
elination for idle hnnbug. They are con-
Cerned as TO the fruits Of government. They
look TO the lnauGlEl ana lAnu6IIlal PEbBtBhh
Of + the commonwealth, to the impartial
and faithful administration Of the law
10 the security of life and property,
co material development and, 10 the
moral health of society. The reckless abuse
and angry nnpreoationB INDUCED by the
''reformp orators weigh NJ nothing with
them when they consider the facts. In his
address, delivered at Monroe last meath,
| Gov McEBery INVITED the seYeTest scrutiny
OF his administration rs regards Its praetica.
results. He mad nothing TO say about the
/ personal chhraeterB of the men who had beer
/ villifyinE and meigning him. He simply
4 reviewed the progress that had been mad
during his incumbencY-~a progress Of which
| his detrRGtors were also beneficiaTies-an
referred the work of the Louisiana DemoC
| rncy to the judgment OF his fellow-cit izens.
1 Do these gentlemen suppose that the bnsi
| ness men OF New Orleans can be deludeCl u
their silly and incorporate outery2 Tn
| State has, during the PAST five or six years
achieved O wonderful advance in OIL its ma
4 have been reclaimed by the splendid leYel
System built up under 10y. aIcEnery. Tn
machinery of Agricultural edu, alton and az
rIeultural development hBs been enlarget
and strengthened. The States finances hav
been set upon secure and lasting basis
Our school system has greatly improved
| public institutions are al in q fouriAhinl
condition-eyery factor Of our happiness am
prosperity has acquired new potency.
/ Do the reform leaders imagine that sensibl
lpeople can be persuaded to ignore these clio
quent facts because they regAle them wit
unneaning diatribes, and because tttth-terl
Blanchard deelaims against Becona-term as
pirafions ia othsrsg